While I am on my salty bullshit

[yvannairie]

I can't tell you how much less interesting Casey becomes to me when people try to make him "more interesting", like, fellas it's not that complicated, he's a depressed cop in a horror story with a manic pixie genius sidekick who drives the plot so he can learn a valuable lesson about how his life is objectively not bad through going through hell and emerging on the other side more stable, except he has no agency in going through the horror and is explicitly a plaything of the gods. If Casey is "special", and this all is only happening to him because he's special, then that takes away the everymanness that makes everything that happens to him so unfair and violating.

That's my emotional support "guy who deserved none of this", guy who isn't carrying the sins of his father or taunting the gods. He might act like one and comport himself like the weight of the world is on his shoulders but that's because he's a ruminating piece of shit who wants to be able to change things and is faced with the futility of it all in the face of the knowledge that he just fucking can't. If he did have special narrative-altering powers he would not be the ideal sin eater to have his life ruined by someone else narrativising it, he would have done it himself.